The Kremlin announced Saturday that it is dropping the criminal case against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of Russia’s feared Wagner pa...
The Kremlin announced Saturday that it is dropping the criminal case against Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of Russia’s feared Wagner paramilitary group, after Prigozhin accused Russia of attacking his forces in Ukraine and threatened to effectively overthrow Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
In less than 24 hours, Prigozhin sent his forces from Ukraine into the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don where they seized Russian military headquarters and then his forces traveled hundreds of miles north on their way to Moscow.
On the way to Moscow, there was an alleged intervention by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko — a top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin — to stop the mutiny.
Prigozhin allegedly said in an audio message posted to his Telegram account that he had ordered his forces to stop their march and reverse course as the Russian government deployed heavy military assets to the streets of Moscow in an effort to stop him.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said on Saturday that Russia’s notorious Federal Security Service (FSB), which was previously the KGB, was dropping its criminal charges against Prigozhin and that soldiers who participated in the rebellion would not be prosecuted due to their service fighting in Ukraine.
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